If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the
war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the
National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group.

The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy?


According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation
and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of
primary education for every child on earth.

At the upper range of those estimates, the $611 billion cost of the war could
have fed and educated the world's poor for seven years


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